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RANDLEMAN, N.C. - An old brick house sits next to some nondescript one-story white buildings in this rural town 90 miles northeast of Charlotte. A passer-by would have to look closely to notice the sign on the chain-link fence revealing the...

May 29, 2005, Sunday

This past week, another Nascar expert took a shot at Bob Bahre's tidy little racetrack in the woods, and Bahre cannot say he enjoyed reading what Darrell Waltrip, the champion driver turned television commentator, had to say. Those who are in auto...

July 22, 2001, Sunday

A driver in a red racing suit and a black cap turned a corner and strode briskly onto pit road for his qualifying attempt this afternoon. Those who were scattered in the aluminum stands at New Hampshire International Speedway began to applaud him...

July 21, 2001, Saturday

Nascar drivers returned to Daytona International Speedway this weekend, still grieving over the death of Dale Earnhardt. Kyle Petty was one of them, but he was facing more anguish this month and he was not sure if he was ready for it. Petty has to...

True story: The Nascar Winston Cup driver Kenny Schrader is driving his race car, screaming around the track at 180 miles an hour. He is also on his radio with his crew -- discussing handling, gas mileage, maybe something else. Schrader looks...

November 19, 2000, Sunday

Still mourning the death of his son, Kyle Petty said yesterday that he would honor him by permanently taking over Adam's race car. Petty, 40, has been driving Adam's car on the Busch Grand National series since the 19-year-old was killed in a May...

July 19, 2000, Wednesday

Kenny Irwin, the Winston Cup rookie of the year in 1998, was killed today when his car slammed into a wall at 150 miles an hour at New Hampshire International Speedway, the track where another driver was killed eight weeks ago. On May 12, at...

July 8, 2000, Saturday

Two months after his son's death, Kyle Petty has decided it is too soon to return to the racetrack where he was killed. Petty will skip Sunday's New England 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, Petty Enterprises announced...

July 4, 2000, Tuesday

Nascar officials found no sign of mechanical failure in the car Adam Petty was driving when he crashed and was killed in May. The 19-year-old, fourth-generation member of the Petty racing family died when he struck a wall at the New Hampshire...